Fred Williams

Art Brokerage: Frederick Williams Australian Artist: b. 1927-1982. Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams was a painter and printmaker. After mainly working with figures in early paintings and etchings, he began painting landscapes in 1957, which remained the major theme in his art. While learning etching and printing in London, he produced vivid caricatured sketches of contemporary London life. It was during this period that he established his method of reworking the same motif a number of times in a number of mediums and very often over a number of years. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than seventy solo exhibitions during his career in Australian galleries, as well as the exhibition Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977.